RedHat Qemu CVE-2017-15124 Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm-ma (2.12.0). (BZ#1562219) Security Fix(es): * Qemu: memory exhaustion through framebuffer update request message in VNC server (CVE-2017-15124) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. This issue was discovered by Daniel Berrange (Red Hat). Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Qemu

CVE References

CVE-2017-15124